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To wonder how my dd got to 14 thinking this was the real phrase?

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 03/10/2019 16:23

We've all be ill on and off since they went back to school.
One morning Dd was telling me that she had a 'bummed up nose' I asked her to repeat it and she said the same.
I tried to clarify what she was saying and told her it was actually 'bunged up nose'. She laughed and thought I was joking!
She's decided she's going to carry on saying it the way she does Grin
Please tell me it's not just us. Confused

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LittleFriendSusan · 04/10/2019 18:53

Oh on the misheard lyrics I used to think the words of Living on a Prayer were "Take my hand and we'll make it elsewhere"

Me too @AryaStarkWolf - until about 30 seconds ago, in fact. I just had to google the lyrics. You learn something every day...

GGsMumma · 04/10/2019 18:52

I thought paperback writer by the Beatles was take the back right turn til I was 16!!! Blush

FiveGoMadInDorset · 04/10/2019 18:52

We used to go and visit Bouncy Island a lot when DC were younger, correctly known as Brownsea Island

Sickoffamilydrama · 04/10/2019 18:49

My DD thought tentacles were testicles as we were walking along the beach one day she said "I'm scared an octopus is going to come out and grab me with it's testicles" Grin

Leaannb · 04/10/2019 18:48

In the US both are correct depending on which area you live

KaliforniaDreamz · 04/10/2019 18:44

My younget DS calls Chipolata sausages chipilizers
we cannot correct him

i thought the song Funk Soul brothers said Vauxhall brothers.

Wombleish · 04/10/2019 18:28

I'm NE and say year to rhyme with fair.

Hecateh · 04/10/2019 18:24

Col-on-el Mustard anyone - took me a long time to believe that was pronounced 'Kernel'.

And one that I think I do say weird - al least for Yorkshire. My mum was from the North East so the way I say it may be more common up there. How do you say 'year'. I rhyme it with 'were' but locally it rhymes with 'fear' (which I can see makes sense

Nearly47 · 04/10/2019 18:21

@Marshmellow91 ,

I think it is Armitage Shanks

Colouringaddict · 04/10/2019 18:20

My grand daughter has always called a heart a “heart love” so now we all say it!

JeannieW · 04/10/2019 18:10

My mum bless her once asked directions to the aquascrotum department instead of aquascutum ( hope that's the right spelling)
I'm a glaswegian and pork rhymes with stork, and as far as I know all my family say it like that

sjonlegs · 04/10/2019 18:10

My husband still thinks the West End Girls are hanging out in a 'denim world' to this day (Pet Shop Boys) ... who am I to tell him any different ... to be fair he was a massive fan of double-denim back in the day! Takes all sorts Grin

sassymum67 · 04/10/2019 18:05

I thought stings song was message in the bathroom not bottle. Only realised few years ago

iklboo · 04/10/2019 18:04

My Year 6er has recently been telling us about Henry VIII’s second wife Amber Lyn

Ah, yes. His trailer trash wife in Daisy Dukes Grin

Diva66 · 04/10/2019 18:03

The Poke was the head of the Roman Catholic Church until I was about 7 🤣

Chocofrollic · 04/10/2019 18:01

My dd (4) says buzz lightening and it’s so cute I haven’t corrected her🤭

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WellVersedInEtiquette · 04/10/2019 18:01

Another one from me...funny how other people's post trigger memories. (Someone once told me to write them down when the children were small but I didn't)
Dd2 used to say, if her hands were full and she couldn't carry anymore, 'I'm full of my hands'
She also called escalators 'alligators' so obviously we still call them that!

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GrubbyCubLeader · 04/10/2019 17:57

My son thought it was camel farge (rhymes with barge) until he was about 15 not camouflage

Zoejj77 · 04/10/2019 17:52

I was at secondary school with a girl who genuinely thought a pineapple was pronounced pinepeople.

NotTonightJosepheen · 04/10/2019 17:51

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alistairric2 · 04/10/2019 17:50

Not quite the same,
My granddaughter was 4 when she told me she didn't like Cinderella in the Harry Potter movies. After a few clues were given I said "Do you mean Voldemort" ,

she replied,

"Yes, but I can't say that"

Lincolnfield · 04/10/2019 17:50

DH always calls Weimaraner dogs, ‘wine bananas’.

Nonstopbuttmachine · 04/10/2019 17:47

Pork/STORK obviously Wink

howmanyways · 04/10/2019 17:47

My Year 6er has recently been telling us about Henry VIII’s second wife Amber Lyn

Nonstopbuttmachine · 04/10/2019 17:45

I'm meeting my Scottish friends for a boozy lunch on Sunday; can't wait for the pork/stock conversation GrinShock